Chapter 72 He is a hypocrite
Lu Sui held a green and red crisp date between his slender fingers.
Seeing Duan Yanzhou getting angry at him, he raised his eyes and sneered: "You are quite courageous. You dare to steal my girlfriend right in front of me."
He threw the crispy dates in his hand into the fruit bowl beside him, then looked at Jiang Yueyao.
Unhappy and cold face: "When will you change your bad mouth?"
"Ah?" Jiang Yueyao looked at him in confusion, "What's wrong with me?"
"That's right, what's wrong with her? Is there anything wrong with being eloquent? You brought her here from Su City just for her eloquence." Duan Yanzhou spoke for her.
"She's just good at talking?" Lu Sui glanced at Jiang Yueyao.
Jiang Yueyao placed a plate of shrimp and tofu in front of him. Hearing this, she puffed out her cheeks and wanted to refute him, but when she met his cold eyes, she didn't dare to say anything more.
But in the end, she hummed in dissatisfaction at him.
The little thing looked like an angry puppy that didn't dare to show its teeth and claws to its master.
Duan Yanzhou was happy.
"Why are you afraid of him? He's just a prude!"
"Xiao Yaoyao, you should be indebted to me from now on. I like the way you are indebted to me."
Jiang Yueyao: “…”
Lord Duan is really despicable.
Feeling that Lu Sui was in a bad mood, Jiang Yueyao, who knew the situation, did not dare to stay any longer. She put down the wine and food and left.
Qingshu lowered the curtain on the side. In the pavilion, Lu Sui and Duan Yanzhou were eating and drinking while talking in low voices. Half an hour later, someone came hurriedly, but was stopped outside the pavilion by Qingxuan.
Qingshu glanced at the other person, lifted the curtain and went in.
"Mr. Li, the Minister of Revenue, has arrived."
Lu Sui didn't move. He ate his meal slowly and leisurely.
Duan Yanzhou on the opposite side gave him a thumbs up.
"As expected of the Master Taifu who is good at calculating, the person has indeed arrived."
Lu Sui raised his eyebrows and poured himself a glass of wine.
Duan Yanzhou asked him, "Can I step aside for a while?"
"Need not."
He looked at Qingshu and said, "Tell Lord Li that I will be waiting for him in the study at midnight tonight."
"Yes." Qingshu lifted the curtain and walked out. After a while, he heard voices outside, but it soon became quiet again.
Qingshu came in again, holding something wrapped in brown paper.
Lu Sui took a look, reached out to take it, opened it, flipped through it, and handed it to Duan Yanzhou.
Duan Yanzhou read it carefully from front to back.
His face gradually darkened.
"What a Prince An! He looks harmless on the surface, playing with birds and listening to music all day long, but secretly he associates with so many officials. Could he have imagined..."
Lu Sui glanced at him and Duan Yanzhou shut up in time.
He handed him the list and lowered his voice: "What are you going to do? Hand it directly to the emperor?"
Lu Sui put down his wine cup.
He said slowly: "I don't want this credit."
"You... give it to the prince?" Duan Yanzhou's eyes lit up.
Lu Sui didn't say anything, which meant he agreed.
"Great, Old Lu," Duan Yanzhou gave him a thumbs-up, but then his expression turned serious. "Are you planning to give up on that person?"
Although he used the word 'that', both of them knew what was going on.
Lu Sui is the emperor's confidant and also a member of the prince's party.
The prince was not born to the queen, as the queen died early, leaving behind only a little princess.
The prince was born to the imperial concubine, who happened to be the emperor's favorite woman.
At the age of fifteen, he was named Crown Prince and given the Eastern Palace.
But the crown prince is mediocre. Compared with the other two princes, his abilities are average and he has no outstanding qualities.
The emperor is well aware of the prince's strength.
In order to consolidate his position, not only was he married to the eldest daughter of the Grand Marshal's Office as the Crown Princess, but after the little grandson was born, Lu Sui was appointed as the grandson's tutor.
To be the tutor of the little prince actually meant that Lu Sui would do his best to assist the prince.
One is a first-rank military general and the other is a first-rank civil official and tutor.
One is civil and the other is military, the emperor is extremely attentive to the prince.
But after so many years, the prince is still like a helpless person. Even though the Yuan and Lu families have tried their best to support him, he is still a helpless person.
Everything is obviously in his favor, but in the end, it still gets messed up.
Lu Sui was already exhausted.
He was a man with great ambitions, but he was exhausted every day following the prince around to clean up the mess he had made.
He could tolerate it once or twice, but after it happened too many times, he began to give up.
"This is the last chance. If he can do it well, I will naturally do my best as before."
Duan Yanzhou nodded and raised his wine cup towards him.
"Okay, I'll follow you."
Lu Sui picked up the wine cup and clinked it with his, then drank it all in one gulp without saying a word.
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Jiang Yueyao sent the last table of guests away and was too tired to talk.
Even the most beautiful woman in the world is exhausted.
She leaned against the counter, rubbing her sore wrist, feeling very depressed.
"You said I was fine...but I had to come to this damn place to suffer."
Jiang Yueyao flipped open the account book, picked up the abacus beside her, and said without looking up while fiddling with the beads: "What's good about it? You are so poor that you can't even take out a penny. If Wanhe Tower hadn't taken you in, you would have starved to death here long ago."
"Me?" Chenyu pointed at herself in disbelief. "Starved to death?"
"What else?" Jiang Yueyao glanced at her, "Do you have money?"
"...If I hadn't met a thief, I would have plenty of silver." Chenyu felt unbearable heartache when she thought that the silver she had secretly saved for a long time was taken away by someone.
She clenched her fists, her teeth itching with hatred.
"Don't let me run into you, or I'll skin him alive and pull out his tendons..."
"Hey Xiao Chenyu, whose skin are you going to peel?" Duan Yanzhou walked over and approached the two of them curiously.
Chen Yu rolled her eyes at him and said, "Would you like me to peel off your skin?"
"Hey, what are you talking about? I didn't do anything to provoke you, why are you trying to peel my skin off?" Duan Yanzhou said, looking at Jiang Yueyao, "Xiao Yaoyao, I'm leaving now. I'll come to play with you next time."
Jiang Yueyao raised her head and glanced behind him.
"Where is Lord Lu?"
"I drank him down."
Duan Yanzhou left after saying this.
Jiang Yueyao really believed him, so she put down her abacus and went to the backyard to find Lu Sui.
Outside the pavilion, Qingshu and Qingxuan were guarding the pavilion diligently.
Seeing Jiang Yueyao coming over, Qingshu hurried to greet her: "The master has always had a bad stomach and usually abstains from alcohol, but today he drank two extra glasses and is feeling very uncomfortable now."
"Why drink when you have a bad stomach?" she said as she stepped onto the stairs.
The curtain was lifted and someone walked in.
Lu Sui was still sitting there with his eyes closed, as if he was asleep.
But she knew he was not asleep, he was just resting his eyes.
So she sat down next to him.
Jiang Yueyao didn't say anything either. She just supported her chin with her hands and tilted her head to look at him until Lu Sui opened his eyes and looked at her.
She then leaned over, her watery eyes meeting his downward gaze.
With the corners of his lips raised, he smiled playfully.
"Who is the blind person who made our adults unhappy?"
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